July 7, 2008

Medvedev, Merkel Discussing Energy Market

TOYAKO, Japan. July 7 (Interfax) - German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel offered to discuss Russian energy supplies with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Monday meeting on the sidelines of the G-8 Hokkaido Toyako summit.

"There is a difference between Russia, which has oil and gas, and Germany, which has to buy [hydrocarbons]. I suggest that we should discuss the demand and the production [of hydrocarbons]," she told Medvedev at the beginning of the meeting.